Posts Tagged: design

Flats on Dundas Street 4/3/13

Dundas Street 130304A typical new town flat block. Flats on the upper floors, shops and commercial on the ground. Regularly proportioned (but differently spaced) windows and a common, high quality material ties it together beautifully.

‘Its about the balance of repetition and variety, it’s almost a mathematical formula’.

Quartermile 13/03/13

I really like these high quality towers slotted in between the old buildings on the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site in the middle of the town. The buildings and the masterplan are by Foster and Partners. It’s all of a high standard rarely achieved.quartermile

Harry Bertoia’s Diamond Lounge Chair

Harry Bertoia’s superbly elegant Diamond Lounge Chair. More comfy than it looks.

Bertoia Diamond Lounge Chair 13-01-29This is how Fraser often sits, same as his mum does:

Fraser Sitting 130129